Huawei's alternative OS HongMeng gets trademarked
HongMeng is expected to be a full Android replacement compatible with phones, tablets, TVs, computers, and cars. It is even supposed to include support for Android apps, making it likely the OS is based on the Android source code.
Huawei has been banned by the US government for almost a month. Since then, there have been too many news and rumors about Huawei. For Huawei, the company’s chip and software supply will cause trouble in the supply chain in a short period of time. But in the long run, this is also an opportunity. Huawei, which has an annual revenue of 100 billion US dollars, has long been developing its own operating system.
Hongmeng OS (Chinese: 鸿蒙OS; pinyin: Hóngméng OS) is an Android-app compatible operating system under development by Huawei since 2012 towards their future products.[1][2]To date and despite speculation, the company has not yet publicly designated an official name on the release of the operating system. It is not known whether HongMeng OS will be based on AOSP or not.[3]
In a published newspaper interview with Die Welt, Huawei executive Richard Yu stated that such an Operating System (OS) could be used as a Plan B if it were prevented from using Android or Windows as the result of U.S. restrictions, but that he would "prefer to work with the ecosystems of Google and Microsoft".[4][5][6] Huawei, since June 2019, has been treating EMUI as an operating system, sparking rumours about HongMeng OS' final naming.[7] Some media outlets claim HongMeng OS could be released in China on either August or September 2019 with a worldwide release on the second quarter of 2020
Brand naming
On 24 May 2019, Huawei registered “HongMeng OS” as a patented trademark in China for active validity until 13 May 2029Now, a report by Global Times suggests that Huawei's Hongmeng OS will apparently be 60 percent faster than Android. Reportedly, Oppo and Vivo have sent out their teams to test the new Huawei OS and found the operating system to indeed be 60 percent faster than Android. We cannot confirm these claims till we get a chance to test it out for ourselves. For all you know, it may just be a matter of building hype for a Chinese alternative to Android OS.
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